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You need that right balance to make sure you’re not stifling innovation, but making sure that you’re aware of the implications of what it is that you’re building, we won’t know until we see how things continue to operate moving forward, but my hope is that they at least continue to think about that. – Katie Harbath	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The counter terror law is draconian. We see it is being used rampantly to jail peaceful critics without bail, it was for the courts to decide if Swamy was guilty, but in repeatedly stifling bail, the authorities chose not to protect. – Meenakshi Ganguly	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am, i mean, I am who I am, but I’ve kept a part of me muted, and it’s been stifling. – John Osborne	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am, i mean, I am who I am, but I've kept a part of me muted, and it's been stifling. – John Osborne	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Hong Kong government is stifling Hong Kong people’s freedom on the Internet, an open Internet has always been the cornerstone of freedom in a place. Disrupting Internet freedom also undermines the flow of information, freedom of communication, and freedom of the press. – Naomi Chan	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I fear that Section 230's sweeping liability protections for Big Tech are stifling true diversity of political discourse on the internet, on the eve of a momentous and highly charged election, it is imperative that this committee of jurisdiction and the American people receive a full accounting from the heads of these companies about their content moderation practices. – Roger Wicker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
These tariffs have had a stifling effect on business. Removing them would benefit the U.S. and China. – Steve Bradford	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They are crushing his spirit, they are stifling his creativity. – Darcy Meys	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Some forms of marital strain can be protective, but support can be stifling, marital conflict does n’t necessarily mean tension and discord, it can be squabbles over things like, ‘ why did n’t you take your meds ? ’ . – Deborah Carr	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The important thing for us as members of the FSB is to be moving in parallel with these developments and not be stifling innovation, but being able to apply them in a way that improves the resilience of the system. – England Governor Mark Carney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Today's decision only reinforces why we need a President who will bring about real reform that repeals Obamacare and replaces it with a plan that expands consumer choice, increases coverage, delivers better value for the dollar, and gives states more control, without stifling job creation, as President, this is the kind of reform I would put in place. – South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It provides enough oversight to provide legitimacy without stifling innovation, i think it is a good balance between on the one hand the U.S. and specifically New York, which I think have gone too far, and what a lot of countries are doing which is just completely ignoring it. – Tom Robinson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There's been no dialogue, no conversation, there's been a stifling of debate about the properness of this negotiation. – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Think about that phrase, 'As cool as the other side of the pillow.' It's a hot, stifling night. You're having trouble sleeping. But then you think to turn the pillow over, and, Wow, it's cool, and it feels so good, well, that's who Stuart is. He is 'the other side of pillow,' the man who made sportscasting cool. God bless whoever it was who thought to rearrange the bedding at ESPN. – Jay Harris	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius. – Remy de Gourmont	added by anonymous 10 years ago

You need that right balance to make sure you’re not stifling innovation, but making sure that you’re aware of the implications of what it is that you’re building, we won’t know until we see how things continue to operate moving forward, but my hope is that they at least continue to think about that.

– Katie Harbath

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The counter terror law is draconian. We see it is being used rampantly to jail peaceful critics without bail, it was for the courts to decide if Swamy was guilty, but in repeatedly stifling bail, the authorities chose not to protect.

– Meenakshi Ganguly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am, i mean, I am who I am, but I’ve kept a part of me muted, and it’s been stifling.

– John Osborne

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I want to get to the height of my career being completely who I am, i mean, I am who I am, but I've kept a part of me muted, and it's been stifling.

– John Osborne

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Hong Kong government is stifling Hong Kong people’s freedom on the Internet, an open Internet has always been the cornerstone of freedom in a place. Disrupting Internet freedom also undermines the flow of information, freedom of communication, and freedom of the press.

– Naomi Chan

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I fear that Section 230's sweeping liability protections for Big Tech are stifling true diversity of political discourse on the internet, on the eve of a momentous and highly charged election, it is imperative that this committee of jurisdiction and the American people receive a full accounting from the heads of these companies about their content moderation practices.

– Roger Wicker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

These tariffs have had a stifling effect on business. Removing them would benefit the U.S. and China.

– Steve Bradford

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They are crushing his spirit, they are stifling his creativity.

– Darcy Meys

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Some forms of marital strain can be protective, but support can be stifling, marital conflict does n’t necessarily mean tension and discord, it can be squabbles over things like, ‘ why did n’t you take your meds ? ’ .

– Deborah Carr

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The important thing for us as members of the FSB is to be moving in parallel with these developments and not be stifling innovation, but being able to apply them in a way that improves the resilience of the system.

– England Governor Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today's decision only reinforces why we need a President who will bring about real reform that repeals Obamacare and replaces it with a plan that expands consumer choice, increases coverage, delivers better value for the dollar, and gives states more control, without stifling job creation, as President, this is the kind of reform I would put in place.

– South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It provides enough oversight to provide legitimacy without stifling innovation, i think it is a good balance between on the one hand the U.S. and specifically New York, which I think have gone too far, and what a lot of countries are doing which is just completely ignoring it.

– Tom Robinson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's been no dialogue, no conversation, there's been a stifling of debate about the properness of this negotiation.

– Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Think about that phrase, 'As cool as the other side of the pillow.' It's a hot, stifling night. You're having trouble sleeping. But then you think to turn the pillow over, and, Wow, it's cool, and it feels so good, well, that's who Stuart is. He is 'the other side of pillow,' the man who made sportscasting cool. God bless whoever it was who thought to rearrange the bedding at ESPN.

– Jay Harris

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

– Remy de Gourmont

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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